Excellence in Education Grants Program

Announcement

The ISU CVM is pleased to announce the 2024-2025 Excellence in Education (EE) grants program. This program supports initiatives designed to improve the effectiveness and/or efficiency of teaching/learning, the quality of the student experience, and/or the quality of educational scholarship (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) produced at the ISU CVM.

Preference will be given to projects that affect a large number of students in the professional program and achieve one or more of the following:

1. Improve effectiveness and/or efficiency of the educational program. (e.g. Achieve similar or greater learning results in less time and/or with fewer resources.)
2. Improve the student experience. Without compromising learning outcomes, reduce student stress and anxiety or improve student satisfaction.
3. Improve the efficiency and/or validity of student assessment.

Proposal Guidelines

Proposal Submission Deadline

Deadline has passed for 2024

Amount

$60,000.00 has been allocated for this program, with the expectation of funding multiple grants ranging from $2,000.00 – $20,000.00, depending on the nature and scope of the proposed project.

(Note: proposal submission is not complete until a signed electronic copy is submitted to Xiaoshuang Wei, xswei@iastate.edu.)

Eligibility

• The PI must be a faculty member or a member of the college staff with a central role in teaching/learning with a regular appointment at the College Veterinary of Medicine. However, faculty members in other colleges, graduate students, post-docs, or other instructional personnel are permitted and encouraged to serve as a Co-PI or collaborator.
• Although an individual may be an investigator on up to three proposals to this program, an individual can serve as PI on only one. Thus, the same individual may be a PI on one and a co-investigator on two proposals or a co-investigator on three and a PI on none.
• More than one new proposal can be submitted.
• A PI who has a current Excellence in Education Grants funded project is not eligible.
• Project length can be 1 to 2 years.

Proposal Review

The Excellence in Education grant proposals will be reviewed by an Advisory Committee appointed by the Associate Dean for Academic and Student Affairs.

Proposal Format

A. Title Page

1. Title
2. Investigator(s)
3. Proposal Type: New
4. Funds requested for the Project
   • Funds requested for the first year
   • Funds requested for the second year (if applicable)
5. Duration of the project (maximum of two years)
6. Signatures of all investigators and respective Department Chair(s) (include date of signature)